@rbreich The greatest geopolitical catastrophe since WWII was democracies' 'coupling' (i.e. financing and empowering) with the military-expansionist CCP dictatorship of China in the first place.
USA handing that dictatorship its "Most Favoured Nation" trade status in 1994 and greenlighting its accession to the WTO in 2000.
They were epoch-making *bi-partisan* mistakes, sponsored by your business/donor interests' greed.
Now both sides of your two-party system have to some extent realized what globally powerful monster you created over the last 30+ years.
Trump is a narcissist-fascist moron and his motley crew of sycophant morons are naturally doing it idiotically, but moaning about the fact that the USA is now engaging "trade war" (instead of rightfully moaning about the disastrous tactics!) feels a little rich.
(The CCP was *always* manipulating trade and tech transfers to its sole benefit)
Democrat administrations since the Tiananmen massacre of 1989 at the latest should all have tried building a *global coalition of democracies* that rewarded democracy and shunned all despots.
Instead putin was emboldened watching how the CCP regime got away with literally everything, just like all other dictators. 🤷♂️
This rant wasn't your finest hour.
#ccp #china #decoupling #AxisOfDespots
